Main Focus

Sun : Rossby waves, theory – Star-planet interactions : tidal dissipation, theory – Stars : rotation evolution, oscillations.

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Employment

Since April 2017 : Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany

2015 -2017 : Post-doctoral position, Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France

2011 -2014 : Research engineer, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille, France

2010 - 2011 : Post-doctoral position, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Catania, Italy

2008 - 2010 : Post-doctoral position, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Rome, Italy

2005 - 2008 : Doctoral thesis, Laboratory study of the properties of an imaging heterodyne Fourier transform spectrometer for space applications, École Doctorale d’Astronomie et Astrophysique d’Ile-de-France, Supervisor : Pierre Drossart, LESIA

2002 -2005 : Diplôme d’ingénieur civil des Mines (Master equivalent), École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris

Selected publications

Damiani, C , Cameron, R, Birch, A. C, & Gizon, L (2019) Rossby modes in slowly rotating stars: depth dependence in distorted polytropes with uniform rotation, A&A, 637, A65

Damiani, C & Mathis, S (2018) Influence of stellar structure, evolution, and rotation on the tidal damping of exoplanetary spin-orbit angles, A&A 618, A90.

Damiani, C. & Díaz, R. F (2016) Can brown dwarfs survive on close orbits around convective stars? A&A 589, A55.

Damiani, C., Meunier, J.-C, Moutou, C, et al. (2016) Stellar classification of CoRoT targets A&A 595, A95.

Damiani, C. & Lanza, A. F (2015) Evolution of angular-momentum-losing exoplanetary systems. Revisiting Darwin stability A&A 574, A39.

Service : PLATO Data Center

Since March 2020 : Manager of the Data Processing Development Working Group, responsible for producing the L0 and L1 processing pipeline (from raw to calibrated data products).

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